I like gas for the same reasons. If it's on, it's on...if it's off, it's off. I can char/roast jalapeños over a gas burner with no trouble. It's just what I'm used to. If, for some reason, I was found with an electric stove, I'd deal with it though. I just like a gas stove better.

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I've had both gas and electric and I have to answer "yes" to both, but I'll explain.

When we moved into this house, the kitchen had an electric stand-alone stove. It was one level above a campfire and I never liked electric burners so, when we replaced it, we put in a gas cooktop and an electric oven.

Gas for the reasons already stated, especially the part kitchenelf mentioned about roasting peppers, but I prefer an oven to be electric.

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Interesting how many oldtimers migrated from castiron wood/coal cookstoves to gas stoves. Having used all three, and because there are some similarities between the heat situation on a wood/coal cookstove and an electric, I'm comfortable using electric.

I do like cooking over a wood burning stove, I like campfires for the same reason. MY bachlor party, well it was a bachlor cabin trip, no strippers, was somewhere on the Appliacian Trail. At anyrate, I cooked breakfast, lunch and dinner on one of those stoves and loved it. I still prefer my gas stove. Interesting about the electric over though. Aren't most convection ovens electric?

I have a gas stove...gas hot water heater, and gas fired central heat.

When I was without (electrical) power many days during Katrina I had no problem having hot water, and with a simple strike of match the stove was nice to have. So for those reasons, and the others mentioned I like gas.

That being said, If I ever replace my stove, like Miss Katie, I would give serious consideration to an electric oven with gas burners.

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